Thread: Help with JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(text does not fit correctly)

I am having a Problem with my output not fitting correctly. Is there a way to resize a JOptionPane.showMessageDialog window? Or do I have to use a different method to show my output? If you need to see the code for my GUI let me know and I can post it as well.

  private void checkRecActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                         
         try {
            Connection conn= DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/abccomp", "root", "root");
            Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs;
 
            rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM orders;");
 
            String createdBy;
            String date;
            int orderNum;
            int numNotebooks;
            int numPencils;
            int numPens;
            int numPaper;
            int numStickers;
            int numPaperClips;
            int numHighlighters;
            int numOfficeChairs;
            int numMarkers;
            String recOrd = "";
 
            while ( rs.next() )
            {
                createdBy = rs.getString("createdby");
		date = rs.getString("DateCreated");
                orderNum = rs.getInt("ordernum");
                numNotebooks = rs.getInt("number_of_Notebooks");
                numPencils = rs.getInt("number_of_Pencils");
                numPaper = rs.getInt("number_of_Paper");
                numStickers = rs.getInt("number_of_Stickers");
                numPaperClips = rs.getInt("number_of_PaperClips");
                numHighlighters = rs.getInt("number_of_Highlighters");
                numOfficeChairs = rs.getInt("number_of_OfficeChairs");
                numMarkers = rs.getInt("number_of_Markers");
 
                recOrd += "Order number:" + orderNum + "\nDate:" + date
                 + "\nOrder created by:" + createdBy + "Order Details:\n"
                 + numNotebooks + ":Notebooks" + numPencils + ":Pencils"
                 + numPaper + ":Paper" + numStickers + ":Stickers"
                 + numPaperClips + ":Paper Clips" + numHighlighters
                 + ":Highlighters" + numOfficeChairs + ":Office Chairs" 
                 + numMarkers + ":Markers\n\n";
            }
 
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, recOrd, "Recent Orders",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
 
            conn.close();
            }
           catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Got an exception! ");
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
            }
 
 
    }                                        
 
    private void checkInvActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                         
        try {
            Connection conn= DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:mysql://127.0.0.1/abccomp", "root", "root");
            Statement stmt = conn.createStatement();
            ResultSet rs;
 
            rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM inventory;");
 
            int number;
            String product;
            String inv = "";
 
            while ( rs.next() )
            {
                number = rs.getInt("number in stock");
		product = rs.getString("product");
                inv += product +":"+ number +"\n";
            }
 
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Inventory in stock\n" + inv, "Inventory in stock", JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
 
            conn.close();
          } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Got an exception! ");
            System.err.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }

Thanks in advance,
Chris

Please explain what you mean by the output 'not fitting correctly'. I find you can put pretty much any amount of information into the message and it will all get displayed, although the message box may end up bigger than the screen, which isn't helpful...

Maybe if you post up an SSCCE, we can check it out.